Basa (language)

Basa
Spoken in	Nigeria
speaker	100,000 (1973)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic Congo Benue Congo Kainji West Kainji Central Basa-Kamuku; ; ; ; ; Basa ;
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ISO 639-3	or

Basa , also called Abacha , Abatsa , Basa-Benue , Bassa-Komo , Bassa-Kwomu , Rubasa and Rubassa , is a Niger-Congo language from the subgroup of Platoid languages , which is found in central Nigeria in the Local Government Areas Bassa , Ankpa , Nassarawa and Kwali as well as in the city of Makurdi is spoken by about 100,000 people. It belongs to the group of the Kainji languages .

Basa is increasingly being displaced by the official language English, and some Basa speakers also speak Igala or Nupe .

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